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Fairhope Public Library
501 Fairhope Ave; Fairhope, AL 36532; Tel #: 251.928.7483; Fax #: 251.928.9717

Book Review / Lecture Series The Written Word Non-Fiction Book Club

Book Review / Lecture Series
Tuesdays 10:30 a.m.

January 10 - April 24, 2012

January 10th	*Gene Sellier - Review of Wodehouse: A Life, by Robert McCrum*
January 17th	Open-Mike Program
January 24th	*Dean Mosher - Review of Theodore Roosevelt's* "History of the United States'', edited by Daniel Ruddy**
January 31st	*Mary Jane Skinner - Review of How to Breathe Underwater, by Julie Orringer*
February 7th	*Brian Chew - Review of Twilight at Little Round Top: July2, 1963-The Tide Turns at Gettysburg, by Glenn W. LaFantasie*
February 14th	*Janice Charles - Review of Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff*
February 21st	MARDI GRAS - NO BOOK REVIEW
February 28th	*Jim Ellis - Review of The Other Side of Oz: An Autobiography* by Buddy Ebsen**
March 6th	*Pam McRae - Review of Caleb's Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks*
March 13th	*Thack Dyson - Review of Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, by Michael Lewis*
March 20th	*Jay Qualey - Review of Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most intriguing Dedications, by Marlene Wagman-Geller*
March 27th	Suzanne Barnhill - "Louisa and the Alcotts in Fact and Fiction""
April 3rd	Brenda Huchingson - "Florence Chandler Maybrick: 'Wicked Woman' of Old Mobile"
April 10th	Charles McInnis - "Sherwood Anderson and Friends: From Fairhope to Hemingway and Faulkner"
April 17th	*John Hafner - "The Literature of Sports: The Boys of* Summer, by Roger Kahn, and Paper Lion, by George Plimpton"**
April 24th	*Gretchen Schapker - Review of A Visit from the Goon* Squad, by Jennifer Egan**

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The Written Word

Schedule for 2012
Sundays - 3 p.m. - Giddens Conference Center

January 29
Jim Walther
The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, by Walter Mosley

February 26
Art White
American Salvage: Stories, by Bonnie Jo Campbell

March 25
Nancy Donnerly
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest hour, by Lynne Olson

April 29
Mary McBride
Robert Frost: Collected poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson

June 24
Patricia Meyers
The Paris Wife: A Novel, by Paula McLain

July 29
Jay Sharpe
Coming Through Slaughter, by Michael Ondaatje

August 26
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford

September 24
Anne Morris
The Art of Fielding: A Novel, by Chad Harbach

October 28
Susan Daniel
The Weird Sisters, by Eleanor Brown

Informal Reception After Programs

Sponsored by the Friends of the Fairhope Public Library
The public is invited.

Non-Fiction Book Club

Join us on Thursday, January 12, 2012, at 2:00 pm in the Board Room.

We will be discussing Sarah Vowell's book, Assassination Vacation.

Everyone Welcome.

Updated 02/14/2012

CONTACT INFORMATION

For the director, Tamara Dean, please email: director@fairhopelibrary.org

For reference questions please email: reference@fairhopelibrary.org

For circulation questions please email: circulation@fairhopelibrary.org

For youth questions please email: youthservices@fairhopelibrary.org

                                                                                      Fairhope Public Library
                                                                                       501 Fairhope Ave.
                                                                                     Fairhope, Alabama 36532
                                                                                       251.928.7483